"Hit again!"

When Meng Xu got rid of Josh Howard's defensive mid-range jumper again, Avery Johnson on the sidelines couldn't sit still anymore, he didn't remember how many timeouts he had called in the third quarter, and he didn't remember that this was the first few points Meng Xu got after he came out in the third quarter, anyway, the point difference on the scoreboard was getting bigger and bigger, Jerry Starkerhouse's three-point shot was the only time the Mavericks took the lead in this game, and since then the Mavericks have no hope of leading.

"Is there really no way to limit him?" Watching Meng Xu face Josh Howard and Adrian Griffin in this offense is a very unreasonable step-back pull-out jumper, Avery Johnson, who has already stood on the sidelines with his hands on his chest, only feels that his heart is beating wildly now, and every shot Meng Xu hits is like a stab in Avery Johnson's heart.

Avery Johnson has arranged a lot of things before this game, from offense to defense, Avery Johnson has made a very careful arrangement, and even prepared several sets of plans, but this game has been played so far, and the strategies and tactics prepared by Avery Johnson have not been able to play, especially the defensive arrangement around Lin Han, which has almost failed so far.

Looking at Meng Xu, who was still scoring, Avery Johnson himself didn't know whether he should call another timeout, because Avery Johnson knew that even if he called a timeout again, he didn't know how to arrange Meng Xu's defense, how to change the situation on the court, when Meng Xu's scoring efficiency alone exceeded that of the Mavericks' entire team, any adjustment was futile, just like Phil Jackson once said, only he could prevent Meng Xu.

So when the third quarter of the game ended, looking at the score of 69-63 on the scoreboard, Avery Johnson's heart for the first time rose a sense of powerlessness, even when he was 0-2 down at the beginning, Avery Johnson did not feel this way, because he always believed that he and his team could get the score back, but before the game was played today, Avery Johnson's confidence had been shaken.

"Damn!" Looking at the former teammate wearing the Pacers' No. 5 jersey, Avery Johnson's heart is really bad now, since coaching the Mavericks for two seasons, Avery Johnson has set one record after another, the best head coach, a super high regular season win rate, a step a year, two years into the Finals, in front of one victory after another, Avery Johnson has even been touted by the national media as the future No. 1 coach of the NBA, which is undoubtedly a very high evaluation and praise.

It's just that Avery Johnson is a very realistic person, and no one can say for sure what will happen in the future, plus Avery Johnson doesn't want to wait until ten or twenty years later, so Avery Johnson is pursuing the present, after eliminating the powerful Spurs in the Western Conference semifinals, Avery Johnson has only one goal, that is, the championship, especially after adjusting the team lineup and killing the Suns at the same time, Avery Johnson's confidence is unprecedentedly high, as if he is the protagonist, He is the "Knight" who was expected by everyone to take out the Pacers, but after the Finals began, reality hit Avery Johnson hard.

Since the beginning of the season, Avery Johnson has been studying Meng Xu and studying the Pacers, and before the first game of the finals, Avery Johnson also specially consulted his mentor Greg Popovich, and then according to his understanding of Meng Xu, he developed several sets of strategies to limit Meng Xu, but the facts told Avery Johnson that all his hard work was useless, no matter what tactics were used, whether it was single defense or packing, Meng Xu was still the same Meng Xu, Meng Xu, who only scored 7 points in the first half, scored 24 points in a single quarter in the third quarter of the game, and the Mavericks' defense was completely useless to Meng Xu, or rather, as long as Meng Xu wanted to score, no one could stop him.

Although the score is behind and the situation on the court is also unfavorable to the Mavericks, after all, the game is not over, and as long as the game is not over, then everything is possible, so after hesitating for a long time, Avery Johnson decided to send all the main lineups to do the last game after the start of the fourth quarter.

"The Pacers and Mavericks fielded their respective lineups at the start of the fourth quarter, and it looks like the two sides are going to have a showdown early." seems to have seen through Avery Johnson's idea, and after the timeout, Rick Carlisle also sent the main lineup very tacitly, ready to fight the Mavericks in advance.

"Meng Xu still has the physical strength to press Jason Terry all over the court?" As the whistle sounded at the beginning of the fourth quarter of the game, looking at Meng Xu, who was pressing and defending Jason Terry in the backcourt, whether it was Michaels on the commentary bench or the audience at the scene, they were obviously a little surprised, the first quarter of the game was full of pressure, the third quarter of the game was still full of pressure, but after the start of the fourth quarter, there was still physical strength to press the defense, is Meng Xu a perpetual motion machine?

And Jason Terry, who was pressed by Meng Xu at this time, was really annoyed, he was pressed by Tony Allen in front, and finally waited until Tony Allen's physical strength was almost exhausted, Meng Xu came again, and unlike Tony Allen's kind of clean defense, Meng Xu, the first person in the league, will use some small actions that are not easy to be noticed by the referee while pressing the defense, which makes Jason Terry very annoyed, if it weren't for the fact that this is the finals, he obviously can't do Meng Xu, Jason Terry really wants to compare with Meng Xu.

If there is still a flaw in Tony Allen's tight defense, then Meng Xu's tight defense is airtight, there is no flaw at all, and after dribbling the ball in the backcourt for a long time, Jason Terry couldn't pass the center circle, and was almost cut off by Meng Xu, and Jason Terry had no choice but to call his teammates to cover, and only rushed to pass the center circle with the ball before the 8 seconds of violation.

However, after Jason Terry dribbled to the frontcourt, it was found that Meng Xu's pressing in the backcourt was just the beginning, under Meng Xu's airtight defense, Jason Terry did not say that he implemented the head coach's arrangement, and even the ball was a little difficult, and the basketball was dribbled back and forth by Jason Terry for more than 15 seconds before passing to Josh Howard on the left side of the three-point line under the cover of his teammates.

"The Mavericks' offense has stopped again!" Several consecutive offenses, Jason Terry needs the cover of his teammates to advance the basketball to the frontcourt, and after arriving in the frontcourt, Jason Terry is difficult to shoot the ball by Meng Xu, and in this case, the Mavericks' offense is basically at a standstill.

Jason Terry's ability is actually not bad, a player who has been the boss of the team, even if that team is a fish belly, his strength will not be much worse, but Jason Terry is not a first-class point guard like Steve Nash and Jason Kidd after all, in the face of Meng Xu's level of defense, Jason Terry is really a little at a loss, once, twice, maybe with the help of his teammates to get rid of Meng Xu, but if there are too many times, it is inevitable that he will often walk by the river without getting his shoes wet.

"Meng Xu broke the ball again, the Pacers launched a fast attack, Meng Xu passed the ball to Tony Allen, and Tony Allen passed back to Meng Xu, a beautiful air relay, and the difference between the two sides has come to 10 points."

"It looks like the Mavericks are gone."

After the difference between the two sides was widened to 10 points, the Mavericks' morale and fighting spirit continued to decline at a visible rate, and several Mavericks players on the court, with the exception of Dirk Nowitzki, have clearly changed their attitude towards the game.

After being tackled twice by Meng Xu in a row, Jason Terry didn't even dare to advance with the ball in the backcourt, and the rest of the Mavericks players, when running without the ball, were obviously not as active as before, the situation on the court was already like this, and Michaels and Magic Johnson could naturally see that the Mavericks were really bad this time.